CVE-2021-27645

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-415 Double Free

Publication date:

24/02/2021

Last modified:

09/06/2025

Description

The nameserver caching daemon (nscd) in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.29 through 2.33, when processing a request for netgroup lookup, may crash due to a double-free, potentially resulting in degraded service or Denial of Service on the local system. This is related to netgroupcache.c.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 2.50 LOW
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): High
Privileges Required (PR): Low
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Low

Base Score 3.x

2.50

Severity 3.x

LOW

Vector 2.0

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 1.90 LOW
Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0

1.90

Severity 2.0

LOW

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:glibc::::::::	2.29 (including)	2.33 (including)
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:33:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:34:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:::::::*

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CVE-2021-27645

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

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